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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09262	Fiue godly, and profitable sermons concerning 1 The slaverie of sinne. 2 The mischiefe of ignorance. 3 The roote of apostasie. 4 The benefit of Gods service. 5 The Christians loue. Preached in his life time in sundry places. By that late faithfull minister of Christ Mr William Pemble of Magdalen Hall in the Vniversity of Oxford.	Pemble, William, 1592?-1623.; Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1628 (1628)	STC 19576A; ESTC S114334	73,812	112

seeke for a change of their present condition viz. 1. the ' euill of the present estate in which they are 2 The good of another whereto they may come both are seriouslie to be thought on in this businesse forasmuch as there is no estate worse then the slauery of sin and punishment nor any better then the libertie of grace and glorie Wherefore let me earnestlie entreat you to bend your meditations vpon these two points First thinke with your selues how miserable a thing it is for a man to liue all daies of his life like a slaue and die like a villaine how wofull is the case of that poore creature which is at the command of euery base affection led and driuen hither and thither according as euery wicked desire and hellish inspiration shall provoke it wearying it selfe in the wayes of wickednes and taking a great deale of paines to worke out its owne everlasting miserie Thinke what strange folly it is for a man to content himselfe with a few poore commodities pleasures that sinne can afford for a day or two the very enjoyning whereof do but make him more vnhappy No man that is wise would buy the greatest of such contenments for one of the panges of an ill conscience which accompanie them The time comes on when he must part with all his delights and be turn'd out of the world naked of all comfort grace and favour This is it that cutts him to the heart and one serious thought of it quite dasheth all his jollity and contentment Feares are vpon him on euery side making him to liue vncomfortable because he knowes he shall die vnhappily But now turne our thoughts on the other side and consider how happie and glorious the condition of the Saints is whom God by his grace hath set at libertie from the service of sinne Whether you looke vpon them here in this life in the estate of grace or hereafter in the estate of glorie their freedome is euery way blessed and desireable Free they are from the commanding power of sin being now led by the spirit of Christ and not by the spirit of the Diuell free from the terrors of an euil conscience free from the terrors of death hell and iudgment free vnto every noble imployment in Gods seruice apt to pray much readie to here much able to meditate much delighting in sanctifying the Sabboth chearefull forward and willing hearted to every good worke A blessed estate if we haue either grace or witt to iudge aright of it I confesse gracelesse fooles haue another esteeme of it Tell them of praying reading the word of God singing of Psalmes hearing and repeating of Sermons and keeping of the Sabbath ye kill them dead rather they had you should set theÌ„ to any the painfullest drudgerie in the world Counsell them to refraine gaming drinking and ill companie to bridle their vngodly and naughty affections to converse with such and such men of godlie and religious liues and to be coutent to be ruled by reason and Gods word All this is euen as much as if you should put them in the stockes or clap a paire of fetters on their heeles Let them liue in a familie where all exercises of religion are stricklie obserued and no libertie given to any lewd practise they are as wearie of it as a prisoner of the Iayle or one that is in little ease and they thinke it seauen yeares till they be gone to some other place where they may liue as they list Thus men of perverse minds and corrupt judgments censure Gods seruice to be no better then a sad dull wearisome and slauish drudgerie Vngodlie men that thinke theirs no mirth but in madnesse no sport but in doing mischife no contentment but in pleasing the Diuell and wicked lusts no libertie at all but in licentiousnesse of liuing Be I beseech you better informed and knowe that a subiect is a free man though he serues his Prince and obey his lawes A Sonne is a freeman although he liue in feare and awe of his Parents A servant is a freeman though he liue in conformity to the lawes of a Christian master and the orders of a Christian familie And so a Christian man is then free yea most free when hee submits himselfe to the lawes of God as an obedient subiect of his kingdome This freedome he enjoyes in part in this life but fully in the world to come when he shall be perfectly freed from all sinne and miserie when there shall be no feare of being vnhappy because no possibilitie of being sinfull Certainly my Brethren if there be in vs any sense of our present miserie or expectation of the future happinesse of the Saints we cannot choose but sigh within our selues with many prayers wishes and longing desires that we also may be delivered from the bondage of corruption into this glorious liberty of the sonnes of God If now for conclusion of all you aske me by what meanes this freedome may be obtained I answere briefly there is no meanes but one and that is Iesus Christ. All the libertie we haue is his purchase and from his gift for as you haue heard we are bondslaues vnto sin partly in regard of the punishment of it partly in regard of the ouer-ruling power thereof Now t' is Christ that sets vs at libertie from both Christ by his blood purgeth vs from all our sinnes by taking the guilt and punishment thereof from vs. Christ by his spirit delivers vs from the power and dominion of sinne that it raigns not in our mortall bodies hauing sanctified vs by sending the holy Ghost into our hearts For where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty as the Apostle speakes 2. Cor. 3. 17. So that euery way Christ is he that bestowes on vs our manu-mission according as he himselfe here speaketh if that sonne shall make you free then are you free indeed wherefore this only remaines that we should goe vnto Christ seeke and sue vnto him for our enlargment intreat him to here the crie of a prisoner and captiue and in compassion of thee to afford his helping hand for thy delivery Pray him to put himselfe betweene Gods wrath and thy soule making peace for thee in heauen by his bloody and meritorious sacrifice pray him to send forth into thine heart the spirit of sanctification to regenerate and renew all the powers of soule body freeing them from that law of sinne which naturally is in thy members that by the power of that inward grace thou maiest be able thenceforth to giue vp thy soule and bodie vnto God as seruants of righteousnesse and holinesse Confesse to him and say O Lord other Lords besides thee haue ruled over me who haue robbed me of all grace peace comfort happinesse honour and libertie long haue I liued in greuious thraldome miserably oppressed and streightned on every side Satan the world the affections of sin haue plaid the vnmercyfull tyrants ouer me

to buy lace and needlesse superfluities of apparell and hast thou not monie to buy a Bible or any other good Booke for shame say not so But I haue no time to read for any thing else time enough to doe nothing to lie a bed till noone to sit two or three houres at dinner or supper to goe to such a friend and there spend halfe a day to such a freind and there spend another to doe any chare that comes in extraordinarily Away with those excuses 't is certaine my brethren there is no calling be it of never so much employment but of twenty foure hours they may if they list spare two at the least for religious imployments yea more if they bee wise and thriftie of their time But I cannot buy all bookes nor read all nor would any man haue thee doe so but buy some read some canst thou not tell which are best and most profitable then aske counsell of the skilfull that are able to advise thee But learning is a hard matter and 't is not for plaine folke to vnderstand the Bible No is it not Then God is too blame that hath written a word for the instruction of all which yet none but schollers should vnderstand but know this is nothing but an excuse for thy slothfulnes learning is hard because thou art vnwilling to learn otherwise the spirit of God hath testified that knowledge is plaine and easie to him that will vnderstand And doe but trie taking but that paines in the studie of religion which thou doest in many needlesse imployments and experience shall tell thee that wisedome is to be found of all that doe seeke her And yet my brethren because the well is deepe and you may plead that you haue not wherewith to draw let mee tell you in the last place of one meanes more to get knowledge which blesseth all the forenamed helpes and that is 5 Prayers vnto God that he would giue thee an vnderstanding heart to know the mysteries of salvation that he would open thine eies to see the wonders of his law That light which is in thee must come downe from the father of lights and vnlesse still thou meane to sit in darknesse thou must haue recourse vnto God praying him that he would shine into thy hart to giue thee the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ. And remember this that he who seeks for the knowledge of matters of religion by the strength of his owne wit and other naturall parts without humble and faithfull supplications for Gods assistance in this behalfe such a man is in danger to be misled into manie erroneous and hereticall opinions for if in any thing much more in the matters of religion is that most true he that is a scholler vnto his owne reason hath certainelie a foole to his master Wherefore we are to put on an humble and sober minde intreating his direction submitting our reason to his wisedome Now my brethren doe these things and prosper haue an eare open to heare the word a heart readie to meditate on it a tongue seasonablie to talke of it an eie diligent to read it and with all these ioine heartie praier that thou maiest vnderstand it aright and then be thriving and succesfull in holie knowledge though thy tallent be as yet but small yet follow this course and after a verie little paines and patience thou shalt see for certaine that this traffique will returne thee ten for one even a large increase of all spirituall knowledge The gaine whereof shall bring much glorie to that thy heavenlie master that set thee on worke and to thee his good and faithfull servant a bountifull rewarde for thy labour FINIS HEB. 3. 12. 13. Take heede least there be in any of you an evill heart of vnbeliefe in departing from the living God c. THE words containe in them a serious exhortation to perseverance in the profession of the Gospell of Christ. The occasion is from the Comparison which the Apostle makes betweene Moses and Christ and betweene the Church of the Iewes and of the Gentiles vnder Christ Moses and Christ agreeing in that both are faithfull to him that appointed them in the exâ—cution of their office but they differ in that Moses is but a seruant in the house of God Christ is the sonne Moses gouerned as a delegated officer Christ rules as a soueraigne Lord of the Church the house which himselfe hath built hauing purchased it with his blood rear'd it vp with his spirit preseruing it by his power therefore he is justly Lord of it as of his owne and so he hath the preheminence aboue Moses The Church vnder Moses and vnder Christ what ever difference there be in other matters yet in this they are in one and the same condition that as there reverence was required vnto Moses so now obedience is required vnto Christ. It was to no purpose for the Iewes to plead they were Moses disciples the peculiar people of God chosen of him graced by him with so many favours if yet in the meane time they hardened their heartes and would not heare Gods voice but provoked him by their Idolatries murmurings other disobediences tempted him through Infidelitie and despised his word and marveilous wonders wrought among them In this case no priuiledge coulde helpe them they shall surelie smart for their disobedience and if God may bee believed vpon his oath they haue displeased him so much that they shal never enter into his rest The verie same thing the Apostle applies vnto Christians they are the Church of Christ members of the bodie of Christ partakers of his benefits and graces but it is vpon this condition that they shew themselues faithfull in the obedience of the gospell of Christ His house we are saith the Apostle ver 6. if we hold fast the confidence of reioycing of the hope firme vnto the end perseverance and faithfulnesse is that which makes men true members of the Church of Christ whether Iewish or Christian If the Iewes be vnbelieving and rebellious they come shorte of the land of Canaan in the type and substance too If the Christians be like them in their sin their punishment is the same they are excluded also from the heavenly rest of the people of God Wherefore the Apostle in the next Chapter presseth this exhortation vehemently That these Hebrews to whom hee writes should carefullie looke to themselues that they were not as their Fathers of old vnfaithfull and disobedient in their profession thereof least they become also like to their Fathers deprived of all benefit from promise in Christ. Take heede therefore Brethren saith he that there be not c. This is the occasion The parts of the words are two 1 An Admonition to take heede of Apostasie or backesliding from religion which is here described 1. by ' its nature it is a departing from the living God the fountaine of all

dignities he hath made him head of the Angels who adore him of the Church to rule it by his spirit Ruler of the world to governe it by the scepter of his power he is now sate downe at the right hand of Maiestie and Glorie the father having put into his hands all power in heauen and earth and committed vnto him all power over Men and Angels To which greatnes of his power is equal the glorie of his person invested with the robes of Maiestie brightnes impâ—ssibility and all other excellencies that can be imagined most excellent When we reade the description of his transfiguration on the Mount of his appearance to Saint Paul to S t Iohn we may conceiue a little what they saw but ti 's heareafter that we shall see him as he is Now vnto all these graces these glories of Christ ioine that which is the fountaine of all from whence ye shal see the parts of his compleat excellencies That now is the infinite loue of God the Father towards him his only Sonne He is his delight his elect in whom his soule delighteth his beloved sonne in whom he is well pleased so that if we would seeke for a patterne of all excellencies they were no where to be found but only in him No marvaile if the Church the faithfull whose eies are opened to behold those things in Christ doe loue him a person so beloved of god so louelie in himselfe so gracious so glorious But this is not all they loue him also Reason 2 Secondly in regard of what he is to theÌ„ vnto the church Christ is all in all what good shee hath it is from him what shee expects it is by him 1 First in this life shee hath grace and protection grace from his spirit protection from his power both from his Loue. The Church is sanctified by his spirit he baptizeth it with his Spirit washing the faithfull with cleane water from the filthynes both of the flesh and spirit he hath freed them from that loathsome vncleanenesse of corrupted Nature wherin the vngodly remain polluted with all vncleane lusts he sets them all at libertie from the bondage of sinne of servants to sinne making them servants to God in righteousnes he liues in our hearts by faith and changeth our sinfull natures into the likenesse of his most glorious nature by the powerfull workes of his spirit sending life into vs who were wilde and withered branches that being quickned thereby we might bring forth fruit according to God in all holynesse 2 Secondly the Church is protected by the power of Christ froÌ„ the malice of Sathan whether he act plot contriue destruction against whole Churches or by temptations feeke to vndoe the soules and salvation of private men Christ walketh in the midst of the Candlestickes Revel 1. 20. he only that hath placed them can remoue them he hath his starres his Ministers in his right hand where they shall bee saâ—e he hath all those that God hath giuen him in his keeping and none shall plucke them from him all are kept safe to that everlasting kingdome In peace he is the glorie of his Church in trouble the safetie of it if shee be in the wildernes he is the Angel that goes before her to giue her rest if shee be persecuted he hath a wildernesse whereto she may flee there be cleft and holes in the rocke wherein shee shall be hid and if the Dragon cast forth whole flowds of malice to overwhelme her the earth shall open her mouth swallow vp the flowds if shee be invaded with Armadoes he can blow with his breath and they shall sinke into the bottome of the deepe like lead if vnder-mined by a Powder-plot he can bring to light the deedes of darknesse and saue his anointed and his people by a deliverance as wonderfull as the act intended In a word his heart is vpon his Church and faithful people their sorrowes he thinkes vpon their afflictions his afflictions he is pained when they are persecuted in every distresse he is neere at hand to afforde succour in health to saue them from sicknesse in sicknesse to saue theÌ„ from death in trouble of estate and paine of body to preserue them from a disquiet minde in anguish of soule to vphold from fainting by despaire In life to saue them from a thousand deaths in death it selfe to deliver them from that death which is to come Thus is Christ beneficiall to vs in this life But in the life to come he bestowes glory on the Church the Saints shal be made perfectly righteous perfectly glorious like vnto himselfe where he is there they shall be for ever to behold his glory to be partakers of his ioie You see then that Christ every way deserues all our loue seeing he is not only most excellent in himselfe Ch. 1. 13. but hath also done most good vnto vs. Ch. 5. 16. Whence it is no wonder if everie faithfull soule conclude as it is in this booke often that Christ is to it as a bundle of Myrrh a cluster of Camphire that he is faire and pleasant and wholy delectable Let vs nowe make some vse to our selues of this point Vse 1 The first vse shal be for a reproofe of mens mis-guided affections who loue any thing better then Christ they are baptized into the name of Christ count it an honour to bee called Christians and if you will belieue them they exspect to be saued by Christ yet if a man looke into their practises thei 'le appeare to any that can iudge that they thinke of nothing lesse care for nothing lesse then Christ. That which the Church confesseth of her owne negligence whereinto shee was misled Chap. 1. 6. They made me keeper of the vines but I kept not mine owne vine shee attended on the fancies and pleasures of others but not on her owne welfare this we may apply vnto the profanenesse of most men who haue Vines enough to keepe and dresse where about Sathan and their owne lusts haue set them on worke but for that true Vine which is Christ Iesus they take no pleasure at all in resting themselues vnder his shadow or tasting his pleasant fruit Men haue many things to busie their affections about but while they tend other things they are vtterly carelesse of this one thing that is the chiefest One man hath set vp preferment and greatnes in the World for the idoll which he worships and all his time meanes and thoughts are taken vp in prosecution of some plot wherevpon he hath contrived his farther advancement Another wallowes in all base pleasure and so long as hee can content the beastly part of himselfe his sensuall desires he thinkes himselfe well-apaid hee enioies what he loues and what needes he more Another loues nothing but mony and cattle and trees and earth it is his happynes to say all this is mine and when he is amidst those things he is amidst

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