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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

study of the former part and practise of the latter because the first is a demōstration of the grounds the second an exhortation to the fruits of Faith That which he spake truely of that one Epistle may be obserued in all the rest and generally in all his writing for he planteth by doctrine and watereth by exhortation in euery Epistle laying the foundation by teaching and building vpon it by exhortation to a holy life that the true Christian rooted in faith and strengthned through hope may by the sanctification of the spirit grow to a perfect man in Christ Herein the proportion he vseth is not alwayes alike nor the same as standing sometimes more vpon doctrine then exhortation namely in that large Epistle of his to the Romans sometimes more vpon exhortation then doctrine as in this to the Ephesians yet doth he apply both and vse either as one becommeth more needefull then another to profit with And surely if euer there were a time wherein there was more taught then followed more knowne then practised and therefore more neede of exhortation then doctrine it is ours and it is now for euen now and at this time we are a great number of vs better Schollers then men and vnder the full sailes of our science what doe we but make ship-wracke of all good conscience Therefore I haue not thought it amisse to intreat of that part of the Apostles exhortation wherein hee generally aduiseth the Ephesians and in them vs that seeing they were called from being strangers and forreiners to be Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and seeing they were made of enemies sonnes and translated out of darknesse into so great light they would therefore as Citizens and sonnes or as sonnes and children of light take heede not onely though carefully to the doctrine which they had receiued but circumspectly to their wayes walking not onely directly therein in regard of themselues but wisely in respect of others and not as fooles in the vanitie of their opinions but as wise vnderstanding what the will of the Lord is not neglecting the grace then offered but redeeming the season or buying it backe againe like good chapmen of time Now in these words the Apostle requireth first diligence take heede then the ordering of our wayes by diligence how yee walke after all auoiding of offence in walking that yee walke circumspectly and circumspectly with discretion not as fooles but as wise and lastly that wee take all occasion to doe good not loosing but redeeming the opportunitie the reason is the dayes are euill or we liue in a bad age and with men of bad conditions so euill and nought that they haue euen tainted time it selfe and the very dayes in which wee liue To take heede and not to our walking is no diligence to walke and not circumspectly no discreet diligence to be circumspect and not wise is great follie to be discreet and wise in other things and not for time is vanitie and no godly discretion but so to take heede that we walke so to walke that we be circumspect that we be wise so to be wise that we redeeme the time or bin out for well doing that precious commoditie that others despise who therefore are no good husbands of time but spendthrifts of it is the way indeede to make the dayes that are euill to others good to vs. Take heede is as much as watch ouer your Christian state that you receiue not the grace of God in vaine of this duetie as there are many causes to moue vs to it so there are many occasions to withdraw vs for whether we looke into the world that was made to serue vs or into our selues who were made to serue the Lord whether we cast our eyes vpon things without vs or call to minde the things that are within vs what are they take them at their best but causes to moue vs to walke worthy of our vocation but take them in their corruption and what are they but occasions of euill what but snares in the world and the chaines of the Prince of darkenesse to hold vs in wickednesse And both these as they are of no small force the one to bring vs to our duties if well considered the other to lead vs away from them to all vanitie of minde error of life if not well watched and taken heede vnto so doe they exact at our hands no small labour and diligence duely and well to obserue both one and other for albeit godlinesse be of it selfe so great riches that it neede nothing but it selfe to commend it to vs and sinne be of it selfe so great not gaine but losse and loathsomenesse that it hath enough in it selfe to make it vile vnto vs yet that there may be nothing wanting to stirre vp our diligence by all meanes in this matter many things are spoken of the one to make vs to seeke it with more care and as much is noted of the indignitie of the other to make vs auoid it with more contempt for the first consideration if wee would enter into the soule of it acknowledging the great care that God hath of vs how can it but moue vs to double diligence and heede in the matter specially being thereby waged and with some hire to seeke that which is so worth the seeking for to speake nothing of our creation which was of nothing nor how he made all things subiect to vs that we for whom he made all things might be subiect to him alone when we were worse then nothing he redeemed vs and when we had lesse then nothing hee endued vs with the graces of his spirit that being dead to sinne we might liue vnto righteousnesse and being deliuered from the hands of our enemies we might serue him without feare all the dayes of our life in righteousnesse and true holinesse before him Luk. 1.74 75. Now that hee deliuered vs from so great a bondage as we were subiect vnto not onely generally by the fall of Adam but more particular by being cast out of the common wealth of Israel was such a benefit as deserueth whatsoeuer seruice we are any way able to performe vnto him but that he should redeeme vs with so great a price as the death of his first and onely sonne and call vs also to so high an estate to be Citizens with the Saints and heires with him of an inheritance immortall vndefiled that fadeth not reserued in heauen for vs this is a blessing that is many degrees greater then the seruice of our whole life can attaine vnto but beyond all this that hee should endue vs with those gifts and blessed graces that make vs to walke worthy of this vocation and able as it would seeme to pay him with his owne lent loue by making vs so rich in him what heart created can conceiue what this is and if it cannot be conceiued by vs how doth it concerne vs to take heede seeing these

him Math. 15.8 9.20 To be hearers of the Law and not doers is to deceiue our selues Iam. 1.22 For so wee shall make our eares to accuse vs and our owne mouthes to speake against vs. And they who like Monsters haue longer tongues then hands that is can say more then they will doe are not vnfitly compared to leaues without fruit lampes without oile clouds without water hauing a shew of godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 To these as Gregory noteth in his moralles it commeth to passe in the iust iudgement of God that by the wickednesse of their liues they loose the opinion of their faith For though we are to confesse with the mouth as wee doe beleeue with the heart Rom. 10.10 Yet as Cyprian saith in his booke de Duplici Martyrio effica●ius est vitae quàm linguae testimonium more speaking is the Testimony of our life then the witnesse of our tongue And in the same booke further habent opera suam linguam habent suam facundiam etiam tacente linguâ Our workes can speake and that eloquently for vs though we hold our peace In the end hee concludes that as our good workes professe God so our euill doe say for vs that wee thinke there is no God It cannot be denied but that the Word of God is like vnto fire and therefore as able to worke in vs not onely the knowledge of Gods will but obedience to the same as fire giues vnto water not onely heate but motion making it not onely hote but to boile ouer Yet as fire it selfe though neuer so hote doeth not burne the hand that lightly toucheth it passing quickely through the flame so neither doeth the Word worke where it is little regarded or passeth presently through vs. And here their negligence commeth to bee reprooued who though they acknowledge the Doctrine of Christ and can be content in their manner to giue their names to the trueth doe not much trouble themselues in shewing it foorth by their deedes how so euer other wayes they will be wary enough to doe nothing directly against it But though they thinke it good to sleepe in a whole and warme skinne and to passe through this life as a Ship through the Sea that leaueth no signe of her being there yet they shall finde how so euer they can reasonably cleare themselues of doing no euill that they shall answere for not doing of good and further for not doing as much good as they might And therefore let them that liue in no particular vocation flater themselues as much as they list because in doing nothing they doe no euill though indeede it be euill to doe nothing and idlenesse bee as Bernard proueth as well the mother of vice as the step-mother of vertue they shall heare one day that sentence of condemnation read against them I was hungry and ye gaue me no meate I thirsted and yee gaue me no drinke I was naked and yee cloathed me not Math. 25.42.43 It is not said that when Christ in his poore members was hungry yee tooke away his bread but it is said yee did not feede him nor that yee tooke away his drinke when hee was thirsty but that yee gaue him no drinke neither that yee vncloathed him but that yee cloathed him not when hee was naked So Saint Augustine but as wee must walke so wee must so walke that wee bee circumspect Walke circumspectly c. Because there is but one way right and the same narrow Mat. 7.14 where there are many by-wayes and broad withall it is necessary and required that in our walking we bee circumspect looking about vs and to our feete where we set them and that as well in respect of our selues that we doe not erre as in respect of others that we doe not offend For our selues we shall not doe amisse if as the Sailor hath alway the North pole and the Archer his marke in his eye so we euer haue in the eye of our minde the end at which we should aime in our whole course euen that which is the North pole of our Christian Nauigation and white or leuell of our best and holiest endeuours here And therefore if wee did well consider to what end we were created and since the image of God was defaced in vs to what end wee were redeemed it would moue vs to take that course that could best bring vs to that end and to thinke all that labour lost that is bestowed to the contrary or impertinently thereunto The rather also should wee so doe because it is not in our power or choise to propose to our selues in our Christian walke what end and manner wee list but haue the same pitched and set vnto vs by the will of God whose will in his Word is our sanctification and that euery one of vs should know how to possesse his vessell in holinesse and honour 1 Thes 4.3 4. Now this holinesse of life being the chiefe end or white at which the regenerate should aime and bend vnto in their Christian conuersation doeth set a price vpon it and all other things else which though lawfull and needfull in our mortall life we should much lesse esteeme then it and it being chiefe much more then them all For this cause it behoueth vs to bee very circumspect that seeing temporall blessings are necessarily and may lawfully in a sort be desired we bee not caried away with the tide of our affections to set our hearts vpon them or to esteeme them either for themselues or for any other end and with any other minde then for the exercise of godlinesse For as the Moone is darkened and Eclipsed when the Earth doeth come betweene her and the Sunne so the mindes of the godly suffer and are in a certaine Eclipse of Pietie when earthly cogitations come betweene them and the Sunne of Righteousnesse Christ Iesus Therefore well was it noted by Gregory in his Morals that solus in illicitis non cadit qui se aliquando a licitis cante restringit that is that hee onely doeth not offend in things vnlawfull that now and then restraines himselfe from things lawfull And now if wee must bee so circumspect in things indifferent and lawfull as not to desire them either more or other wayes then we should how much more circumspect ought we to be in those things that of themselues are vnlawfull and wicked There is no fellowship betweene light and darkenesse betweene the workes of the Spirit and the deedes of the flesh 2 Cor. 6.14 If we will liue in the Spirit wee must walke in the Spirit Gal. 5.25 And if we bee Christs wee must crucifie the flesh with the affections and the lusts Gal. 5.24 One saith well if wee would bee of the minde before we sinne of the which wee commonly are when we haue sinned and did marke our pleasures as Aristotle doeth aduise not as they come but as they goe away wee would not commit such