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A09780	The fauourite: or, A plaine demonstration from Holy Scripture of Gods especiall loue to the righteous, in a sermon preached at S. Andrewes in Norwich, the 18. of Nouemb. 1611. since enlarged and newly published for the comfort of Gods people. By Timo: Plummer preacher of Gods word	Plummer, Timothy.	1622 (1622)	STC 20050; ESTC S105176	25,009	62

to Abimelech Restore the man his wife Gen. 20.7 is a Prophet and hee shall pray for thee and thou shalt liue But marke how in one prayer he preuailed with God in the case of Sodome obserue how soone hee brought God to an abatement Gen. 18.3 from fiftie to tenne And I thinke if he had said If there shall bee found one righteous in the Cittie God would haue spared it for ones sake This I am sure of that God neuer ceased granting till Abraham ceased praying But to what end tendeth this discourse to comfort and encourage thee Oh Christian in these last and perillous times wherein wickednesse seemeth to get the vpper hand and true righteousnesse is outfaced Eccles 3.16 Mal. 3.15 Wee may see the place of iudgement that wickednesse is there and the place of righteousnesse that iniquitie is there What though Antichrist for a time doe domineere withall deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse in them that perish ● Thess 2. ●10 what though the number of them be encreased that beleeue not the truth but haue pleasure in vnrighteousnesse Verse 12. Bee not thou disheartened let them feare the Spirit of Gods mouth and the brightnes of his comming Verse 8. but lift vp thy head Be thou as bold as a Lyon Prou. 28.1 what though the wicked be rich and in amitie with the world ●am ● 4 thou art more rich thou hast the better part that shall neuer be taken from thee Prou. 8.13 Durable riches and righteousnesse thou art most happy in Gods sauour if thou knewest thine owne happinesse and that thou mayest know it in some degree I haue for thy sake willingly published this little Treatise It is my first borne my might and the beginning of my strength If thou reapest any profite by it it is the thing which I desire onely praise God in my behalfe for enabling me to performe any seruice for the good of his Saints and afford me thy prayers vnto the same God that I may grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ. 2 Pet. 3.18 Thy brother in the same Lord. T. P. PSAL. 37.16 A little that a righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked BEsides that maine and manifest difference which God will make between the righteous and the wicked at the day of iudgement Mal. 3.18 Math. 13.43 Mat. 25.30 when the righteous all shine foorth as the Sun and the wick●● be cast into vtter darkenesse Hee hath ●ade euen in this life a great difference betweene them not onely in respect of that inward portion of true sanctifying grace which the righteous partake inabundance and the wicked not so much as tast of so differ as much as light and darkenesse Ye were sometimes darkenesse Eph. 5.8 but now are yee light in the Lord. But also in regard of their outward estate which seemeth a Paradox in temporals the righteous haue the better of it hee goeth away with the better share so saith this Text A little that the righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked The Method which I vse in the vnfolding of these words is 1. I poynt out the righteous man 2. I obserue the little that he hath 3. I shew how this little is better then the riches of many wicked First wee enquire for the Righteous man 1. Part. Rom. 3.10 Eccl. 7.29 in Gen. 1.27 Saint Paul findeth it written There is none righteous no not one Salomon hath onely found this that God made man righteous according to his owne image in righteousnesse and true holinesse But as the Diuell stood not long in the truth so man not long in that perfect estate but by sinne defaced Gods work of originall righteousnesse both in himselfe and in his posterity Gen. 5.3 Adam begat a sonne in his owne likenesse after his owne image not in the image of God in which he was created but in his owne image that is a sinfull wretch like himselfe Hence Eliphaz saith Iob. 15.14 Esay 64.6 what is man that he should be cleane and hee that is borne of a woman that hee should bee righteous And Esay we are all as an vncleane thing Rom. 5.19 and al our righteousnesses are as filthy ragges But the same Saint Paul saith againe As by one mans disobedience many were made sinners Esa 53.11 so by the obedience of one namely Christ shall many be made righteous according to that in the Prophet by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many 1. Ioh. 2.1 Ier. 23.5 33.15 Mal. 4.2 Reu 12.1 So then wee see that Gods children deriue all their righteousnes from Iesus Christ the Righteous yea from that righteous Branch spring all their righteousnesse they are couered about with the rayes and beames of the Sunne of righteousnesse The Church is cloathed with the Sunne Now for the further clearing of this poynt wee are sayde to be righteous two wayes 1. By imputation of Christs righteousnesse vnto vs so Christ is made vnto vs amongst other things righteousnes 1. Cor. 1.30 2. Cor. 5.21 Rom. 10.4 Ier. 23.6 Iustitia Euangelica Phil. 3.9 Gen 15.6 Rom. 4.3 c. and God hath made him to to be sinne for vs who knew no sinne that we might be made the righteousnes of God in him And in another place Christ is the end of the law for righteousnes to euery one that beleeueth therefore we call him the Lord our Righteousnesse and this is called the righteousnesse of iustification or the righteousnesse of faith An example of this wee may see in Abraham He beleeued in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousnes 2. By inchoation of inherent righteousnes wee being changed in our naturall qualities by the power of Christs Spirit are led on to performe in some measure the righteousnes of the morall Lawe following the example of our Sauiour Christ 1. Ioh. 3.7 according to that pregnant place He that doth righteousnes is righteous euen as hee is righteous and this is called the righteousnes of Sanctification or the righteousnesse of the Lawe Rom. 8.4 Iustitia ●egalis Psal 106.31 An example of this we hane in Phineas who executed iudgement and that was counted to him for righteousnes A Righteous man is such an one as being found in sinnefull Adam A description of a Righteous man Ephes 2.3 Rom. 8. a child of wrath is through Gods eternall grace of election in Christ called to be the Sonne of God and heire of heauen whose sinne is freely pardoned and person accepted in the actiue passiue righteousnes of Christ applyed by faith Mat. 3.17 who being endued and renewed with the Spirit of Christ is so throughly altered and changed in soule body and spirit 1. Thes 5.23 that he is daily enabled to dye vnto sinne and to liue vnto righteousnes that is willingly to performe some new and pleasing obedience to

before And so it will be with thee if thou shalt harken diligently vnto the voice of thy God to obserue and to doe all his Commandements with sinceritie and vprightnesse of heart Vers 3 c. Blessed shalt thou be in the Citie and blessed shalt thou be in the field Blessed shall be the fruite of thy body and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattell the increase of thy Kine the flockes of thy sheepe Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store And a little after The Lord shall command the blessing vpon thee in thy store-houses and in all that thou settest thine hand vnto c. Vse 3 Thirdly Iam. 2.6 this sharpely reprooueth the wealthy-wicked that vsually despise and disdaine the poore righteous man and count him as the dung and off-scouring of the world let them know that although hee hath but a little Pro. 12.26 yet The righteous is more excellent then his neighbour and againe Better is the pore that walketh in his vprightnesse Pro. 28.6 then he that is peruerse in his wayes though he be rich And to say truth the righteous poore man is better then the wicked rich inasmuch as righteousnesse is better then riches Now righteousnesse excels rithes in many particulars especially in these foure 1 Riches cannot secute vs from Gods wrath Prou. 11.4 but righteousnesse can Riches auaile not in the day of wrath but righteousnesse deliuereth from death 1. Pet. 1.18 We are not redeemed with corruptible things as siluer and gold but learne what this meaneth Esa 1.27 Sion shall be redeemed with iudgement and her conuerts with righteousnesse 2 Riches adorne but the body but righteousnesse decketh and beautifieth the soule Luk. 16.19 Act. 12.21 Esa 61.10 Ezek. 16. He hath clothed me with the garments of saluation he hath couered me with the robe of righteousnesse as a bridegroome decketh himselfe with ornaments and as a Bride adorneth her selfe with iewels 3. Riches cannot giue content Eccl. 4.8 5.18 neither the eye nor the heart can be satisfied with riches mans spirit his immortall soule cannot be filled with these terrene and transitorie things Wee reade but of one ●●au that said I haue enough Gen. 33.9 These trifling toyes cannot satisfie the vnsatiable heart of a naturall man Matth. 5.6 but they that hunger and thirst after true righteousnes shall be satisfied yea Ioh. 4.14 he that drinketh of the water that Christ doth giue shall thirst no more 4 Riches continue not they are not permanent and durable they make themselues wings and are soone flowne away Prou. 23.5 but righteousnesse is called euerlasting by the Prophet Daniel Dan. 9.24 Psal 82.3 and wee reade of the man that feareth God his righteousnesse endureth for euer Well then thou that despisest Gods poore God will contemne thee and set thee at naught and highly exalt his name and memory Vers 6. The righteous shall bee had in euerlasting remembrance and in another place Prou 10.7 The memory of the iust shall be blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Vse 4 Fourthly to shut vp all in a word Let vs not enuie the vnhappy flourish of the wicked as wee are admonished in the entrance of this Psalme Verse 1. Prou. 24.1 Psa ● 1.16 and by Solomon also in his booke of Prouerbes Habakuk seemeth to repine at their prosperous estate saying Their portion is fat and their meate plenteous Iob 21.7 Job calleth their estate into question when he saith Wherefore doe the wicked liue become old yea are mighty in powwer c. Dauid himselfe stumbled at this rocke of offence Psal 73. Hee was offended at this through ignorance vntill he went into the Sanctuary of God and was well catechized concerning the point Then he vnderstood their end and would not change his estate with them Ibidem For though they prosper in the world and increase in rickes yet hee saw that God did set them in slippery places and cast them downe to destruction Therefore doe we see them aloft vpon the top of Fortunes wheele Claud. Iamnon ad culmine rerum iniustos creuisse queror tollūtur in altum vt lapsu grauiore ruant do they build their nests in the clouds stay awhile they will not bee long there they will come downe as fast as euer they went vp So saith the Prophet Man being in honour abideth not he is like the beast that perish Be not thou afraid when one is made rich when the glory of his house is encreased Psal 49.12 Verse 16. as in the same place neither stand amazed when they that worke wickednes are set vp as another Prophet speaketh because Computatis Computandis that is to say in right reckoning thou art aboue tenne thousand times a better man in thy estate Mal. 3.15 rather pity such as haue no more profit and gaine by that which they possesse What doth it profit a man to gaine the whole world and to loose his owne soule Mat. 16.26 And reioyce in thine owne aduantage and profite in that thou doest not labour in vaine Light is sowen for the righteous and ioy for the vpright in heart therefore 1. Cor. 15.58 Psal 97.11 Phil. 1.11 reioyce in the Lord ye righteous for if thou beest filled with the fruits of righteousnes know assuredly that the fruit of Righteousnes shall be vnto thee a Tree of life Prou. 12 3● FINIS I. S. to the Reader REader if gladly thou wouldst be resolu'd Whom God delights in see thou here involud A plaine description of his Fauourite Not the prophane ne yet the Hypocrite It thwarts the purtnes of the iealous Lord To fauour sinners or with them accord But he who out of nature claspeth sure By faith vnfeined on his Sauiour pure Shewes forth his light abandons wickednesse And serues the Lord in truth and righteousnesse NExt if thou seekst wherein his fauour stands T is not in worldly wealth ne goods or lands But in his inward gifts and speciall grace Wrought in the hearts of such as he embrace Let not the rich then in his outward fate Thinke himselfe happy and in blest estate Nor let the poore repine but rest content With that same little which the Lord hath sent FOr lastly here is proou'd how God doth blesse The little portion that his owne possesse But cur eth wasteth and consumes the store Of rich-vngodly grinders of the poore Let then the righteous man be righteous still And frame his life according to Gods will For though the wicked here exalted be The righteous man is better farre then he FINIS